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Formal, Functional and Interactional Perspectives
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The view that questions are 'requests for missing information' is too simple when language use is considered. Formally, utterances are questions when they are syntactically marked as such, or by prosodic marking. Functionally, questions request that certain information is made available in the next conversational turn. But functional and formal questionhood are independent: what is formally a question can be functionally something else, for instance, a statement, a complaint or a request. Conversely, what is functionally a question is often expressed as a statement. Also, verbal signals such as eye-gaze, head-nods or even practical actions can serve information-seeking functions that are very similar to the function of linguistic questions. With original cross-cultural and multidisciplinary contributions from linguists, anthropologists, psychologists and conversation analysts, this book asks what questions do and how a question can shape the answer it evokes.

Author Biography:

Jan P. de Ruiter is Professor of Psycholinguistics in the Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies at Bielefeld University, Germany.
Release date Australia
March 10th, 2016
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Contributor
  • Edited by Jan P. de Ruiter
Illustrations
4 Halftones, unspecified; 72 Line drawings, unspecified
Pages
270
Dimensions
153x230x15
ISBN-13
9781107595613
Product ID
24946820

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